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Tettigoniidae

Sia ferox Giant Cricket

Sia feroxจิ้งหรีดยักษ์

Photograph: urasimaru · CC BY-SA

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

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Drag the sun. Sia ferox Giant Cricket is nocturnal, so what it is doing changes with the light.

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Adult sizeLarge ~6–8 cm; males with large 'tusks'

Identity

Adult size

1.75 m6–8 cm
1520100400 cm
6–8 cmNose to tail, adult

The size the sheet states for a grown animal.

Why

Two drawings, because they answer two questions. The silhouette is at true scale against a 1.75 m person: it says how big this animal actually is, which no number does for someone who has never seen one. The bar under it is logarithmic and shared by every sheet here, so a 2 cm isopod and a 4 m python both stay readable on the same axis and two species can be compared at a glance.

Order / Family
Orthoptera / Tettigoniidae (tusked)
Origin
Adult size
Large ~6–8 cm; males with large 'tusks'
Activity
Nocturnal
Temperament
Defensive: powerful bite/tusks

Enclosure and conditions

Temperature
25–30 °C
Humidity
70–80%
Min. enclosure
Well-ventilated tall vivarium with cover
Substrate
Coco + leaf litter

Diet

Staple food
Omnivore — leaves, fruit, and protein (predatory)

Behaviour and handling

HandlingNot recommended: bites hard
CommunalCannibalistic: house individually
MoltingMolts hanging: vertical space + humidity

Reproduction

Reproduction
Eggs in substrate

Common health problems

Failed molt
Signslow humidity / crowding
Preventspace + 70–80% humidity

When to see a vet

Not veterinary advice.

Good to know

  • Males have oversized jaws ('tusks') used to fight: one of the fiercest pet orthopterans.
  • Males have oversized jaws ('tusks') used to fight — one of the fiercest pet orthopterans.

Sources

General giant katydid husbandry

Others in this group

Caribbean / Purple Pincher Hermit CrabCoenobita clypeatusGiant African Land SnailLissachatina fulicaRed Apple CrabMetasesarma aubryiIndonesian / Purple Land Hermit CrabCoenobita brevimanusRuggie Land Hermit CrabCoenobita rugosusVampire Crab (assorted Geosesarma)Geosesarma sp. (e.g. dennerle, 'red devil')Giant Pink-foot / Immaculate Land SnailAchatina immaculataGiant West African / Banana Rasp SnailArchachatina marginata

What this sheet states

46%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 4 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: thermal rail and temperature audit, humidity instrument and audit, enclosure size audit. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.